October 13, 2015

Owen was so proud of himself for this tooth, and we were so proud of him too!! This was the first one that he got out all by himself, and even though it was an accident, he still did it by himself! It had really loosened up during lunch that day and he flicked it while he was watching a show and it popped right out. Way to go, Owen!

 

September 10, 2015

Dylan finally gets to start preschool! Ms Vicki and Ms Ellen are going to love on Dylan this year and he couldn't be more excited! Look out Pre K 3, here he comes : )

September 6, 2015

The Old College Tri was my first triathlon experience and it was amazing! We all woke up by 5am to head to Denton to set up my transition area for a 7am race start. I was racer #178, which meant that I was the 178th person to jump in the pool. I was swam over twice in the first 10 seconds, but after that I got in my groove and finished the swim in 5:19. I took off for the transition area, threw on my bike gear and was off! The 12 mile course was 6 miles out and 6 miles back. During training I was riding in the 3:45-4:15 range, but my first two miles were 2:45-3:00!! That's the first time that I thought I might actually be a contender in this thing! I pushed as hard as I could and finished the bike with an average of 16.9 mph - WAY faster than my normal training rides that were around 14.5 mph! The run went fine - about an 8:35 pace - and I just kept telling myself that 'if you walk, you'll always wonder.' You never know how the finish times will turn out, and there's nothing worse than coming in 2nd, 4th, 10th, etc by a matter of seconds that you can chalk up to wussing out and walking. So I pushed through and finished strong!

I had no idea HOW STRONG until I heard the results... FIRST PLACE in my age group!! What?! 1:16:44! I was hoping for a 1:25, so 9 minutes faster than that was amazing! I finished 20/127 for females. I was shocked and so excited... and I might be hooked ; )

August 27, 2015

Part 1: Owen, Eli and Garrett's first day at Faith! These handsome boys are all in the same class with Mrs. Brooks and will go every Thursday this year for Art, Music, Science, Spanish, Chapel, Gym, Lunch and Library. They have lots of friends in their class from last year and were so excited to start the year!

August 3, 2015

Here we go!! First year homeschooling two different grade levels... yikes! 

Here's what we're using:

Garrett: Learning Language Arts through Literature (Blue), Math-U-See Alpha, Sight Words, Anytime Writing

Owen and Eli: Learning Language Arts through Literature (Yellow), Math-U-See Gamma, Sequential Spelling, All About Spelling, Writing with Ease

Joint: Story of the World Vol 2, Apologia Astronomy, The Picture Smart Bible

Here's to a great year!!

 This is how our school room turned out at the end of last year. Starting with a blank slate again this year - can't wait to see what we learn!

July 28, 2015

Three cheers for Jill!! Owen and Eli's teeth had been loose for days (if not weeks!) Then in a matter of a few days, Owen got kneed in the tooth twice and Eli bit wrong into a bagel and we had two REALLY loose teeth. I tried pulling them but couldn't really get a good grip. We told them that Jill was an expert and had pulled 8 of her son's teeth so they both gave her a shot and she got them both on the first attempt!! Woohoo for a double-duty tooth fairy night! 

They wrote letters to the Tooth Fairy asking for 'small prizes' instead of money. Eli requested that his 'not be girly'. Ha! Markers to the rescue!

July 17, 2015

Dylan is officially a swimmer! We didn't think we were even going to have him take lessons this summer because he's only three, but after hearing about more than 3 dozen drownings in the first week of summer, we thought it was better to be safe than sorry! Brian was amazing, and even though Dylan cried for almost the entire week, something must have stuck because he's officially water safe! He can jump off the diving board and swim across the pool, take breaths, float and climb out on his own. So proud of him!!